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Text: Chris Graeme, Photos: Fernando Bento (ICPT) It was the fourth visit as a guest speaker to the International Club of Portugal for far-right Chega leader André Ventura, this time as Chega’s [...]

It’s finally happening! After 50 years – or probably even before if Portuguese early 19th century author and social critic Eça de Queiroz is anyone to go by -, a Portuguese government is [...]

Text: Chris Graeme; Photos: BPF/Fernando Bento (ICPT) Nine months ago, when management executive Gonçalo Regalado took up the gauntlet to run Portugal’s sovereign development bank Banco Português [...]

It was a full house a the Hotel Sheraton Lisboa & Spa on Monday where PSD presidential candidate and former PSD leader and current President Luís Marques Mendes addressed PSD and Democratic [...]

Text: Chris Graeme; Photos: Fernando Bento (ICPT) Tourism is one of the great drivers of the Portuguese economy, representing 11% of the country’s GDP, hosting 32 million tourists per year [...]

The European Union and European NATO countries now know they must accelerate rearmament through increased defence spending to 5% of Member-State and non-Member-State GDP, innovative governance, [...]

Marco Galinha is one of Portugal’s most well-known and admired self-made serial entrepreneurs. At a Lisbon lunch organised by the International Club of Portugal (ICPT) on Tuesday (May 27) he [...]

Text: Chris Graeme Photo: Fernando Bento (ICPT) Low productivity is one of the main stumbling blocks to economic growth in Portugal according to Portugal’s Minister of Finances, Joaquim Miranda [...]

Portugal’s government is running a serious risk of failing to meet its pledge to build nearly 60,000 new homes at affordable prices to help solve the country’s housing crisis unless its reduces [...]

Text: Chris Graeme; Photo: Fernando Bento The former chief of staff of the Portuguese Navy, who looks likely to put himself forward as a candidate in the presidential elections in 2026, has [...]